"Field Study of Recycling Efficiency and Durable Products Left at Curbside in New
York City" presented and published in the Proceedings of the Air & Waste
Management Association's 93rd Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Salt Lake
City, UT, June 18-23, 2000. 10 pp.

"The History of Waste Prevention in New York City",
presented at the plenary session of "Damming the Waste Stream", a
waste prevention conference in New York, NY, December 18, 1999

"Multi-Family Recycling Programs: A New York City Case Study",
presented
at the National Recycling Coalitions Eighteenth Annual Congress & Exposition,
Cincinnati, OH. September 26-29, 1999.

Purchasing Strategies to Prevent Waste and Save Money, co-author. Guide
published by the National Recycling Coalition, Alexandria, VA., April, 1999.

"Advancements in Environmental Procurement: Enacting Comprehensive New Legislation
in New York City", presented at Northeast Resource Recovery Conference,
Burlington, VT, June 2-3, 1997.

"Advancements in Environmental Procurement: Enacting Comprehensive New Legislation
in New York City", presented at and published in the Proceedings of the
Twelfth International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management,
Philadelphia, PA, Nov. 17-20, 1996, 8pp.

"Solid Waste Management Solutions for the U.S. and Ukraine", presented at
The American-Ukraine Conference on Environmental Study and Control, Kiev State Technical
University of Construction and Architecture, Kiev, Ukraine, September 21-26, 1993.

"Waste Characterization Studies and the Solid Waste Hierarchy", Resource
Recycling. February, 1992, pp. 75-84. Article traces the development and use of
waste composition studies over the past twenty years, from their use to design
incinerators, then recycling programs, and ultimately, source reduction strategies.

"Designing Waste Composition studies to Optimize Implementation of the Solid Waste
Hierarchy", presented and published in the Proceedings of the 84th Annual
Meeting of the Air and Waste Management Association, Vancouver, British Columbia, June
16-21, 1991. 16 pp.

Targeting Toxics in the Waste Stream, Waste Age, May 1991. Article describes
the concept of pollutant precursors and their deleterious impacts on waste disposal and
recycling, and presents available data on these toxics in the waste stream and the
beneficial impacts to be achieved by their removal.

"The Paradox and the Promise of Source Reduction" presented and published
in the Proceedings of the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Air and Waste Management
Association", Pittsburgh, PA, June 25-29, 1990. 16 pp.

"An Ear for the Public's Wants" Waste Age, April, 1990. Article
describes the genesis of the Not-In-My-Back-Yard Syndrome, the role of the public and
nonprofit environmental organizations in public decision-making, a case study of
mechanisms for public participation used in New York City, and recommendations for
structuring of public participation in government.

"The Public's Perspective Regarding Waste Management and Research Needs", presented
at and published in the Proceedings of the Conference on Municipal Waste at City
College of New York, April 18, 1989. 11 pp.

"Garbage Management in New York City -- The Promise of Source Reduction",
presented at the New York City Environmental Education Conference: A Blueprint for Action,
sponsored by NYC Department of Environmental Protection, New York, NY, September 9, 1989.
The talk discussed the definition of source reduction, the percentage of the waste stream
with source reduction potential, waste generation rates here and abroad, comparative costs
for source reduction vs. other solid waste management options, and the paradox of source
reduction's top placement in the hierarchy and its lowest placement in funding for
research and programs. 36 p

"What Goes In Stays In -- Does Reduction and Separation Before Incineration
Work?" presented at Ashes To ?? -Problems, Perceptions and Prospects in Municipal
Waste Ash Management, A Cook College, Rutgers University Short Course, sponsored by NJ
Dept. of Environmental Protection, New Brunswick, NJ, June 15, 1989. Acetates for the
presentation were distributed. The talk described the available research describing the
inputs of metals and other pollution precursors in the waste stream vs. outputs in terms
of emissions and ash. 42pp